Thursday, July 13, 2006

Here it is

And now, for the report on Prey's awesomeness: It's awesome! :)

Seriously, it's a great "old-school" FPS game. It uses the Doom 3 engine for some great (albeit a bit dark) visuals. It's like a cross between Doom 3 (very pretty, very dark), Duke Nukem 3D (main character spouts humorous one-liners, very 3D-Realms-ish), and Quake 2/4 (enemies are strange mixtures of various creatures with machines or other creatures). They've also thrown in some very nifty gravity tricks, like walking on walls/ceilings and spherical gravity, and the portal effects are great. I can't think of a single game that's used portals to this effect. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the original Unreal had portals in one of its multiplayer maps, but it wasn't anywhere near as cool as Prey.

After I finish Prey, it's back to Oblivion to continue raking in the achievements. After that, hopefully the BFME 2 demo will be up on XBL so I can try it before spending my hard-earned cash.

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